Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

I got interested in star-watching years ago, when I lived in a Yorkshire Dales village with no streetlights anywhere much nearer than ...

I'm guest-posting today over at Jenny Alexander's thoughtful, creative blog ' Writing in the House of Dreams '.  Jenny asked...

by Leslie Wilson When my novel Last Train from Kummersdorf  was published, my brother read it and then said to me: ‘It’s not at all...

If I described this book as ‘ The Screwtape Letters for children’ I would be both spot on and way, way off at the same time. Becaus...

by Juliet Marillier I’ve loved Beauty and the Beast ever since I discovered it in Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book at the age of...

The Luridan is a sort of brownie or hob from Orkney. Thomas Keightley, in his Fairy Mythology, quotes this account of him from Regina...

Are you sitting comfortably?  Because this is the story of how my blog got its name, as well as being the story of a story. It’s hardl...